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SHTTPD URI-Encoded POST Request Overflow

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Disclosed
Oct 6, 2006
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in SHTTPD
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
handling of POST requests. Based on an original exploit by skOd
but using a different method found by hdm.

Authors

LMH [email protected]
hdm [email protected]
skOd

Platform

Windows

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/http/shttpd_post
    msf exploit(shttpd_post) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(shttpd_post) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(shttpd_post) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(shttpd_post) > exploit
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